Obs. rare. [f. SOT sb.1] Foolishness, folly, stupidity.

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1569.  Newton, Cicero’s De Senectute, i b. Suche is the … foolishe sottage and peruerse ouerthwartnes of waywarde people.

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1596.  Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 29. Hard yron-ages death-declining sottage.

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